Digital cheat sheets to make learning & playing the 2024 version of D&D fifth edition (5.5) more accessible and fun.
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Happy Monday backers!
Quick little update to let you know you should start to receive your 5.5 Cheat Sheets very soon!
Things are a little delayed from where I wanted to be. I had a trip to London in mid-July which sent me into a full on flare up and I lost some dev-time, but I am wrapping up the main sheets as we speak.
I have a little bit of final writing left to do which should be finished by mid-week, and then I will be going over the whole set of sheets to unify everything.
On a project like this, the first and last item you work on tend to look a bit different as you develop the process along the way and make a hundred micro-choices. So the last step is the tedious one of doing things like making sure the spacing between boxes is consistent, text padding uniform, and the radius of box corners matches.
So where are we in numbers:
Writing - 95% done
Layout - 90% done (final alignment tweaking)
Assuming no health flare ups or unforeseen tech issues, you should have the standard PDF color versions of the sheets in your inboxes by the end of the week.
Then next week I will make the tweaks for the B&W sheets. The form-fillable accessible versions will come right at the end because those are much more difficult to make tweaks to so will be done as the last item on the list.
The stretch goal process should move much faster once the main sheets are done as a lot of the work for these has happened concurrently to the main sheets being done.
Blank Sheets - The .PDF and .af files for the black sheets should drop a day or two after the finished B&W sheets.
Player Reference Cards - Finished!
Simple Character Sheet - 50% done.
Pregenerated Level 1 Characters using Simple Character Sheet - 0% done. This will be done once the sheet itself is finished.
Starter Adventure - 90% done. I just need to make some tweaks and make sure the language is unified.
Keep an eye out for an email from backerkit containing the link to download your rewards, and I'll post another update once those emails start going out so you know to check 😊
Much love
Anto
Happy Friday backers!
Today I just want to do a quick little check in to let you know that everything is still progressing nicely and we're still on track for you to get your Cheat Sheet Bundles this month.
As a reminder: The add-ons have been sent out via Backerkit/DTRPG, so that includes things like A Night of Adventure, the 2014 cheat sheets, and the SIDEQUEST books.
However, if your pledge only included the 2024/5.5 Class Cheat Sheets, you won't have received them yet. You'll be getting them later this month as expected.
I've had a few emails from folks who were confused by my last update on that so I just wanted to clear things up for you.
This stage of fulfillment is very "boring" from a showcase perspective because it's a lot of me doing a hundred micro adjustments to every page and spending 2 hours making tiny tweaks to wording - it's not flashy or sexy 😅
But, behind the scenes, things are coming along nicely! At the moment I am working through the sheets in rough form, which means getting the initial text in place, understanding how many features are on the page, adding in the artwork etc.
Here's an example of that with the Bard. You can see how boxes aren't aligned yet and there's still a lot of cleanup to be done.
My typical approach is to get all the sheets roughed in to this point and then go back and make the micro adjustments in one big pass, which involves fixing alignment, adding little page flourishes and all that kind of stuff.
Here you can see a WIP of the Wizard sheet which had a polish pass on it for the initial campaign duration to use in promo images and you see some of those minor changes in place.
From there I will be doing the print-ready B&W pass in one big chunk too, which will look something like this.
The B&W pass isn't just a filter slapped on top, but all the colors get tweaked so they can look their best with the best contrast for home printing.
As we get closer to the finish line for this project, here's a little breakdown of how you're going to be receiving your rewards.
The add-ons have been sent out via Backerkit/DTRPG, so that includes things like A Night of Adventure, the 2014 cheat sheets, and the SIDEQUEST books.
The main cheat sheets will get sent and updated in a couple of waves.
The stretch goals will follow on from the cheat sheets, with the blank sheets coming first once I have prepared a bundle and the .af files for them.
The player reference cards and beginner character sheets will follow, and the started adventure leaflet will come last.
Whether the stretch goals go out to you in July largely depends on the weather. If we have another heatwave in the UK like we had last month, I will be out of action for the duration (the heat plays havoc with my migraines and most of the meds I'm on for my chronic illness make me super heat-sensitive, so I'm fighting for my life during heatwaves 🤣).
There are still a handful of you who haven't completed your surveys, so if that's you please make sure to do so ASAP!
If you've lost the email about it, you can recover your survey here:
That's all for this update, and I should be back later this month with the first update letting you know your cheat sheets are on their way to you 💜
Much love
Anto